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memorative, a. and n. ? Obs.|ˈmɛmərətɪv|
[ad. med.L. *memorātīvus (perh. through F. mémoratif, 13–14th c.), f. memorāre: see memorate v. and -ative.]
A. adj.
1. Reminding one of something; preserving or reviving the memory of some person or thing; commemorative.
1448–9J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes D iv b (MS.), Y⊇ memoratyf dart had wounded hym so sore Off Cleopes bryght chere. c1557Abp. Parker Ps. lxix. 191 No where in booke memorative wyth just men have they place. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 402 Melchisedec, which figured out this memoratiue sacrifice, brought forth bread and wine. 1777Nicolson & Burn Westm. & Cumb. II. 193 A memorative epitaph for the worthy and loving Colonel Thomas Barwise. 1835Carlyle in Froude Life in Lond. (1884) I. i. 20 Vernal weather of all kinds,..to me most memorative.
2. Of or pertaining to the memory, esp. in memorative faculty, memorative power, memorative virtue.
1481Botoner Tulle on Old Age (Caxton) C 4, The vertue memoratyf callyd remembraunce. a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1598) 445 Voide of sensible memory, or memoratiue passion. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 8 How the Species, Order, and Circumstances of things are preserved in the Memorative Faculty or Organ. 1706Phillips, Memorative, belonging to the Memory; as The memorative Power.
b. In art memorative (= med.L. *ars memorativa, Gr. τέχνηµα µνηµονικόν).
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 303 margin, This Simonides was the first inuenter of the Art memoratiue. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 383 Many haue..made a memoratiue art, appointing places and their furniture, for the helpe of such as are vnexperienced. a1628J. Doddridge Eng. Lawyer (1631) 23 The precepts of Art Memorative.
3. Having a good memory; retentive.
1481Caxton Myrr. iii. xxiii. 186 Thaugh he had..a thousand hertes within his body the most subtyle and the most memoratyf that myght be taken. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God vii. vii. (1620) 252 A respectiue memory and a memoratiue prouidence must of force goe together. 1695tr. Martial i. xxvii. 38 A memorative drunkard all men hate [orig. Μισῶ µνάµονα συµπόταν].
B. n. Something to put one in mind of a thing; a memorial.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 396 Short sentences and memoratiues, as Know thy selfe, Vse moderation, Beware of suretishippe, and the like. 1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined 137 As Rites, as helpes, as memoratiues of such duties. 1690E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. Pref. 1 The Notes and Observations of this Memorative following were gathered and laid together in time of Persecution. |